Does corpus linguistics have a future?

[xujiajin]

The other day over the chat with some friends, I was told that a professor in the South holds that the prime time of Corpus Linguistics is over.

I was quite shocked at the statement or remark. What do you guys think?

 

[刘语料]

On the contrary, Corpus linguistics 's prime time is just approaching, and much work is left to be done, such as the establishment of the codes of the corpus complilation, annotation; the development of newer concordancing tools, the wide use of the findings in corpus linguistics in language teaching and learning and other aspects.

 

[iCasino]

回复：Does corpus linguistics have a future?

I agree with 刘语料.
If we have to say CL has no future, it is just because everyone has ended in CL and thus CL loses its marked identity [paraphrased from Prof. McEnery].

 

[Haiyang Ai]

回复：Does corpus linguistics have a future?

以下是引用 xujiajin 在 2006-6-11 10:53:09 的发言：
The other day over the chat with some friends, I was told that a professor in the South holds that the prime time of Corpus Linguistics is over.

I was quite shocked at the statement or remark. What do you guys think?

What makes them say so? What's the thinking behind?

 

[xujiajin]

I guess those guys are fed up with palying with "over- and underuses" and "NS vs NNS" stuffs and are not able to find fresh things out of corpora.